Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

- Willkie, Wendell L.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen